Episodic generation can cause semantic forgetting: Retrieval-induced forgetting of false memories

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 602-609

  Starns, Jeffrey J ^a   Hicks, Jason L ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 4644255840     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03195851     Document Type: Article

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